Sunday, September 2, 2007

NURSING REVIEW ON Kinds of exercises for bed ridden and ambulatory patients.

Exercises

-Type if physical activity defined as planned, structured and repetitive bodily movement to improve or maintain physical fitness.
-Strengthens muscles, increases endurance, promotes joint mobility, improves lung capacity and cardiovascular health, prevents constipation, improves sleep quality, reduces the risk of arteriosclerosis, decreases blood pressure, enhances appetite.

Isotonic exercise (dynamic)- Those that shorten muscle to produce contraction and active movement.
Isometric exercise (Static or Setting)- There is change in muscle tension but no change in muscle length and no muscle or joint movement.

Isokinetic exercise (Resistive) - Muscle contraction or tension against a resistance , either isotonic or isometric.

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